Chris Kidwell

“A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“But whatever he spoke he knew would be but another name for the wildness that he sought. It was a freedom and a goodness, a hope and a vigor that he perceived to underlie all the familiar things of his life, which were not free or good or hopeful or vigorous. What he sought was the source and preserver of his world, a world which seemed to turn ever in fear away from its source, rather than search it out, as the prairie grass around him sent down its fibered roots into the rich dark dampness, the Wildness, and thereby renewed itself, year after year.”
― John Williams, Butcher's Crossing

“Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring